After you have published your master pages,…you can assign them to a site or to a device channel…on your site if you're using channels.…Simply click assign master pages to your site,…based on device channel,…to open the site master page settings dialogue.…The site master page is used by all publishing pages.…The system master page is used for pages like…document library views and administrative lists and so on.…

So you can choose to use this for either or for both.…If you want to reset all sub-sites…so that they will inherit this setting,…you can click that checkbox,…but you'll want to make sure that that's exactly…what you chose to do because if you've chosen…not to have inheritance, this will reset it…and will make a little bit of a mess for you.…If you wish, you can use two different master pages.…One for the primary content pages on your site…and another that you used for the more…administrative system pages.…

Or you can set them both to the same page.…I'm going to set the site master page to our new page…

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9/15/2014

Learn how to use SharePoint Designer 2013 to alter the default appearance of SharePoint websites and brand them for your business. This course covers some of the new branding features in SharePoint, as well as HTML techniques that leverage your existing design skills. Not a designer? Don't worry. Gini Courter shows how to customize your site in a few clicks using SharePoint Designer's Design Manager and composed looks. For those new to SharePoint, she also starts off with a review of basic tasks like creating sites and pages, and improved features for images and video. Every SharePoint site doesn't have to look the same. Give yours a fresh visual identity with these techniques.